Pouloudi Nancy

Athanasia (Nancy) Pouloudi is Professor of Information Systems Management and serves as Vice-Rector of International Cooperation and Growth at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece since September 2024.

She holds a first degree in Informatics (AUEB, Greece), and an MSc and PhD in Information Systems (both from the London School of Economics, UK). Her studies were supported by a scholarship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. Her academic career started as Lecturer at Brunel University, UK (1997-2001). In 2001, she joined the Department of Management Science and Technology at AUEB, initially as Assistant Professor in Information Systems Management, where she was promoted in 2006 to Associate Professor and in 2019 to Full Professor. She has served as Department Chair for two terms, in the academic years 2014-2016 and 2020-2022.

Her research focuses on organizational and social issues in IS adoption and implementation. She has published extensively in top journals including the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, the Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Business Ethics and others. She has worked in a number of European Union funded projects on e-business, e-government, digital health and e-society, most recently studying children’s digital maturity (digymatex.eu) and gender equality in business schools (targeted-mpi.eu). She is the Deputy Director of the ISTLab research lab of AUEB.  

She is the Immediate Past President of the global Association for Information Systems (AIS), following her service as the 29th President in the academic year 2023-2024. She previously served as Region 2 (Europe/Middle East/Africa) Representative on AIS Council (2010-2013) and regularly serves on the AIS Region 2 Board and the Executive Committee of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS).

She is a Senior Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), IT for Development, Health Policy & Technology, and the International Journal of Society, Information, Communication & Ethics.

Her international academic service has been recognized by the 2016 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award and the 2020 AIS Technology Challenge Award.